http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Madoff-Points-Fingers-at-Banks-Wants-to-Teach-Ethics-119537264.html
This article is about how Madoff is getting recruited by top business schools to teach about business ethics.
I feel this is ridiculous. I understand that he committed and was successful for quite some time in getting away with it. However, how are you going to reward the person, who stole from many patrons, give him the power and gratitude at teaching at pristine business schools.
Our book talks about power as an organizational behavior topic. By granting someone power in this situation to control, I feel we are in someway ignoring the crimes this guy committed. The person who finally caught and had enough values and ethical responsibility to report him should be the one teaching the class.
We need to start rewarding people for doing the right thing. By setting up rewards, more people will be motivated to do the right thing when ethical situations come up. There are many different motivational strategies that involve rewards that could be put into effect. By having a reward system, we are able to highlight and recognize the people who hold high standard of values.
-Matt Blachowicz
I am surprised that Madoff is being recruited to teach the future generation. I don't think this is right because of all the money this guy lost for other people. Even today, there are still effects going on from the amount of money this guy took away from the innocent people. Why would anyone in their right mind want to hire someone to teach students how to cheat at work. What kind of message would this convey to employees who would see this. I think this would have a lot more negative problems then positive ones.
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